ROSACEAE. — COTONEASTER 163 



reticulo supra leviter impresso v. obsolete subtus obsoleto, parenchy- 

 mate non v. vix bullato; petioli 2-4 mm. longi, sparse pilosi, demum 

 glabrescentes v. glabri. Corymbus 3-7-florus, ramulos laterales termi- 

 nans, pedicelli cum pedunculo 1-1.5 cm. longi, rarissime longiores, 

 villoso-strigillosi, bracteis bracteolisque subulatis parce strigilloso- 

 villosis; calyx cum dentibus dense v. interdum laxius subaccumbenti- 

 setoso-villosus, dentes interdum dorso glabrescentes; petala orbiculari- 

 obovata, 4.5-5 mm. longa et 3.5-i lata, breviter unguiculata, concava, 

 erecta, alba roseo afflata; stamina fere 20, sepalis longiora; carpidia 

 2-5, apice dense villosa. Fructus subglobosus, 7-8 mm. diam., niger; 

 pyrenae 2-5 plerumque 3-4, triangulari-obovoideae, 4-5 mm. longae et 

 3.5-4.5 latae, ventre carinatae, nitidae, stylum vix tertiam partem infra 

 apicem gerentes, dorso irregulariter sulcatae et foveolatae, hypostylio 

 tertiam v. vix tertiam partem dorsi occupante parce villoso v. glabro 

 nitidulo. 



Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, alt. 1600-2000 m., September 

 1907 (No. 147, type) ; Fang Hsien, alt. 1600-2500 m., thickets, Sep- 

 tember 1907 (Nos. 271, 273, 319); north and south of Ichang, alt. 

 1000-2000 m., June and September 1907 (Nos. 2175, 156 as to fruit); 

 Pao-kang Hsien, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1291); no locality, A. 

 Henry (No. 6328). 



Cotoneaster foveolata is closely related to C. moupinensis Franchet, which differs 

 in the thicker more rugose leaves, the many-flowered inflorescence, glabrescent 

 calyx, and in the narrower stones usually 5 or 4 in each fruit and with only a 

 shallow furrow on the dorsal side.. 



Cotoneaster moupinensis Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 

 3, viii. 224 {PL David, ii. 42) ((1885). — Schneider, III. Handb. Lauh- 

 holzk. I. 747 (1906). 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 1300-2000 m., June 

 and September 1908 (No. 857, in part; bush 1-2.5 m. tall, flowers white, 

 fruit black); Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 2000-2300 m., June and Septem- 

 ber 1908 (No. 857, in part; bush 2-5 m. tall, flowers pinkish, fruit 

 black); west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600-2300 

 m., June 1908 (No. 2180, in part; bush 2-3 m. tall). 



The fruit, which has not yet been described, is black, globose, 7-10 mm. in diam- 

 eter with the persistent incurved calyx-teeth leaving a small opening in the middle; 

 stones 3-5, generally 4-5, narrowly triangular-obovoid, 4-5 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. 

 wide, dull yellowish and irregularly and shghtly furrowed on the dorsal side, hypo- 

 style small, lustrous brownish yellow, covering one third or less of the dorsal side. 



This is the common Cotoneaster in the thickets and margins of woods tliroughout 

 western Szech'uan. The flowers are shghtly larger and the leaves less wrinkled than 



